Exploring More on the Effects of Psychological Self-Help Paperbacks

1988 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 891-894 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Forest
Keyword(s):  
Multivariate Analysis ◽  
Treatment Condition ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Reading Condition ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Personality Questionnaires

Three studies examined the influence of paperbacks about psychological self-help on responses to personality questionnaires. Each study consisted of a 2 × 3 design that varied presence or absence of a pretest on a personality questionnaire and an intervening treatment condition which involved reading either one of two self-help books or reading no book. The dependent measures were posttest scale scores on the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, the Tennessee Self-concept Scale and the 16 Personality Factors questionnaire. The effects of 6 self-help paperbacks, tested in pairs, were examined over the 3 experiments. Multivariate analysis of variance showed that the reading condition was nonsignificant across all experiments while the pretest condition was a significant factor for only one questionnaire.

Style and substance in social desirability scales

1989 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Menucha Birenbaum ◽  
Itzhak Montag
Keyword(s):  
Social Desirability ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Personality Factor ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Social Desirability Bias ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Personality Questionnaires ◽  
Occupational Selection

The purpose of the present study was to examine the nature of a social desirability measure under two different types of instructions for filling out personality questionnaires in an occupational selection setting. 1230 male applicants for public vehicle driving licences were administered Cattett's 16PF and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ). The subjects were randomly assigned to two groups. One was given standard instructions for filling out these questionnaires; the second was given special instructions designed to reduce social desirability response bias. Social desirability was indexed by the Lie scale of the EPQ. Based on Eysenck's theorizing concerning the meaning of the Lie scale, the following hypothesis was tested: the factorial location of the Lie scale in the personality domain will differ under the two forms of instructions. It should appear separately from other personality factors under the standard instructions, whereas under the special instructions it should be subsumed under the personality factor which measures conformity. The results supported this hypothesis. The discussion focuses on the meaning of the Lie scale under conditions that elicit social desirability bias and on the role of special instructions in reducing this bias.

General Factor of Personality Questionnaire (GFPQ): Only one Factor to Understand Personality?

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salvador Amigó ◽  
Antonio Caselles ◽  
Joan C. Micó
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Disorders ◽  
Sensation Seeking ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
General Factor ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Approach And Avoidance ◽  
Sensitivity To Reward ◽  
General Factor Of Personality ◽  
Sensitivity To Punishment

This study proposes a psychometric approach to assess the General Factor of Personality (GFP) to explain the whole personality. This approach defends the existence of one basic factor that represents the overall personality. The General Factor of Personality Questionnaire (GFPQ) is presented to measure the basic, combined trait of the complete personality. The questionnaire includes 20 items and is constituted by two scales with 10 items each one: the Extraversion Scale (ES) and the Introversion Scale (IS). The GFPQ shows adequate internal consistency and construct validity, while the relationships with the personality factors of other models and with psychopathology are as expected. It correlates positively and significantly with Extraversion (E) and Psychoticism (P), and negatively with Neuroticism (N) of Eysenck's EPQ (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire); it correlates positively and significantly with the Sensation Seeking Scaled (SSS) of Zuckerman, and is inside the expected direction with Sensitivity to Reward (SR) and Sensitivity to Punishment (SP) of the Sensitivity to Punishment and Sensitivity to Reward Questionnaire (SPSRQ), which represent the approach and avoidance trends of behavior, respectively. It not only relates negatively with the personality disorders of the anxiety spectrum, but also with the emotional disorders in relation to anxiety and depression, and it relates positively with the antisocial personality disorder.

Personality and the Barron-Welsh Art Scale

1993 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 837-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. J. Eysenck ◽  
A. Furnham
Keyword(s):  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Scale Scores

For 62 students scores on the Barron-Welsh Art Scale, a measure of creativity, were correlated with scores on the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. As predicted, psychoticism correlated positively with Art Scale scores, while extraversion and neuroticism did not.

National Differences in Personality: Iceland and England

1983 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 999-1003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sybil B. G. Eysenck ◽  
Erlendur Haraldsson
Keyword(s):  
Personality Factors ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
National Differences

577 men and 567 women were given the 101-item version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, translated into Icelandic. Although some items were inappropriate for use in Iceland, a viable scoring key was suggested and all reliabilities, except perhaps for Psychoticism, were satisfactory. Indices of factor comparison showed very clearly identical factors in both countries. Icelandic and British subjects were compared on the personality factors, using reduced scales comprising only items both scoring keys shared; Icelandic subjects scored lower on all factors, although not always at a statistically significant level.

Effects of Fictional, Autobiographical and Self-Help Literature on Personality Measures

1997 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
David F. Scholz ◽  
James J. Forest
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
Personal Orientation Inventory ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Reading Condition ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Two Measures ◽  
Group Reading ◽  
Personal Orientation

This study evaluated three types of books under different reading conditions and using two measures of personality. Data from 163 women were analyzed in a 3 × 2 × 2 multivariate design, with control groups, which varied type of book (fiction, autobiography, self-help), reading condition (supervised and unsupervised), and order of testing (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and Personal Orientation Inventory). None of the groups who received books to read had mean scores significantly different from those of the control groups. However, the group reading the self-help book had significantly higher scores on scales of self-actualization than the groups using fictional or autobiographical books.

Bulimic Symptomatology and Personality Factors in a Nonclinical Sample: A Replication

1994 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 224-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Geissler ◽  
I. W. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Positive Association ◽  
Personality Characteristics ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Bulimic Symptoms ◽  
Nonclinical Sample ◽  
The Relationship

Analysis of 102 undergraduate women's responses replicated the 1993 findings of Janzen, Saklofske, and Kelly considering the relationship between personality characteristics based on the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire—Revised and bulimic symptomatology as measured by the BULIT—R. Consistent with Janzen, et al., the strongest relationship with bulimic symptomatology was for Neuroticism. Also consistent was the lack of relationship with Extraversion scores. At variance with the earlier findings was a weak positive association between reports of bulimic symptoms and scores on Psychoticism.

Personality and Worry: The Role of Intolerance of Uncertainty

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (10) ◽  
pp. 1607-1616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhihui Yang ◽  
Ruiming Wang ◽  
Hui Chen ◽  
Jiali Ding
Keyword(s):  
Intolerance Of Uncertainty ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Mediation Model ◽  
Penn State Worry Questionnaire ◽  
Penn State ◽  
State Worry ◽  
The Relationship

We examined the relationship between personality and worry, and tested a mediation model in which intolerance of uncertainty (IU) mediated this relationship. Participants comprised 1,135 Chinese college undergraduates who completed the Chinese versions of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire, the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale, and the Revised Eysenck Personality Questionnaire-Short Scale for Chinese. Results showed that neuroticism, extraversion, and IU were significantly correlated with worry. The paths between personality (neuroticism and extraversion) and worry, and the paths mediated by IU, were significant. Participants' IU mediated the relationship between personality factors of neuroticism and extraversion, and worry. The results indicated that IU can be considered as a partial mediator of the relationship between personality and worry.

Impact of Extroversion and Introversion on Language-Learning Behaviors

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (5) ◽  
pp. 819-825 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Naci Kayaoğlu
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Second Language Learning ◽  
Cognitive Strategies ◽  
Personality Factors ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Language Learning Strategies ◽  
Communicative Strategies

Despite the fact that personality factors and learning strategies are of great importance in success with language learning, the link between extroversion and introversion and language-learning strategies has received little attention from researchers. Therefore, I investigated whether or not there is any correlation between these personality traits and language-learning strategies. Participants in the study were 106 extroverted and 94 introverted students. The Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and the Strategy Inventory for Second Language Learning (SILL) were employed. The findings indicated that, with the exception of communicative strategies, introverted learners used a greater range of metacognitive and cognitive strategies than did extroverted learners.

NEUROTICISM AND “SPECIAL TREATMENT” IN UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 807-811 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic ◽  
Adrian Furnham
Keyword(s):  
Health Center ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
First Year ◽  
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire ◽  
Personality Questionnaire ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Scale Scores ◽  
Final Grades

Two intakes of first year students (N = 54 and N = 60) were given the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (Eysenck & Eysenck, 1985) soon after arriving at university. Three years later they wrote their final examinations consisting of seven three-hour papers. Results showed that students high on Neuroticism were more likely to write their examinations in the health center or to provide a doctor's note than were students low on Neuroticism. There was no difference in Extraversion, Psychoticism or Lie scale scores in their final grades.

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